I am writing this blog to share the experience that I gathered in 1.5 yrs timeframe while getting my son's admission a repute school.Hope it will help the kids prepare for their nursery admissions.
All the best kids!!!! and most importantly all the best parents....as you are going to face tough competition :)
First
make the child familiar with colors, animals, birds, fruits, vegetables,
flowers. Once they are comfortable with these then starts with the questions
and answers.
If
your child shares his/her birthday with a famous personality then get your children
know about it. For example, my son’s birthday is on 2nd October. He
was asked during interaction by one of the reputed schools in Kolkata “You have
your birthday on a very special day. Do you know who else was born on 2nd
October?”
I
have divided the questions sets. Once the child is done with 1st set
completely then proceeds for the next set and so on.
These
are very basic questions that can be asked during interaction:
SET I:
1. What is
your name?
Ans: My
name is Mr._____________
2. What is
your father’s name?
Ans: My
father’s name is Mr.______________
3. What is
your mother’s name?
Ans: My
mother’s name is Mrs_______________
May point to father and they may ask
4. Who is he?
Ans: He is
my father.
5. What is
his name?
Ans: His
name is Mr.________________
May point to mother and they may ask
6. Who is
she?
Ans: She
is my mother.
7. What is
her name?
Ans: My
mother name is Mrs.____________
Sometimes
very casually they ask pointing to father or mother who is this?
8. How old
are you?
Ans: I am
____ years old
9. Are you a
boy or a girl?
Ans: I am
a ______
10. When is
your birthday?
Ans: My
birthday is on __________
11. When were
you born?
Ans: I am
born on _____________
12. In which
year you were born?
Ans: I am
born in the year ______
13. Say from A
to Z
14. What is
your school name?
Ans: School
Name is ___________
15. In which
class do you read?
Ans: I
read in ___________
16. Do you
like to go to school?
Ans: Yes,
I go to school
17. Why do you
go to school?
Ans: I go
to school to study and play
18. What is
the name of your class teacher?
Ans: My
class teacher name is _____________
19. Who teach
you at school?
Ans: My
teacher teach me at school
20. When do
you come to school?
Ans: I
come to school in the morning
21. How do you
come to school?
Ans: I go
to school in __________
22. Who takes
you to school or with whom do you go to school?
Ans:
__________ take me to school
23. Who teach
you at home?
Ans: My
mother teaches me at home.
24. When do
you study?
Ans: I
study in the _______________
25. With whom
do you stay when you parents/mother is not at home?
Ans: I
stay with my _____________
26. Where do
you live?
Ans: I
live in _____________
27. Do you
have your breakfast?
Ans: Yes,
I had my breakfast in the morning
28. When do
you have your breakfast?
Ans: I
have my breakfast in the morning
29. What do
you have for your breakfast?
Ans: I
have __________________ for my breakfast
30. Do you
have your lunch?
Ans: Yes,
I had my lunch
31. When do
you have your lunch?
Ans: I
have my lunch in the afternoon
32. What do
you have for lunch?
Ans: I
have ____________ for my lunch
33. What is
your favorite color?
Ans: My favorite
color is __________
34. What do
you like most to eat?
Ans: I
like ______________ most to eat
35. What is your favorite fruit?
Ans: My
favorite fruit is __________
36. Do you
play games?
Ans: Yes,
I play games
37. What is
your favorite game?
Ans: My
favorite game is ___________
38. What you
like to play most?
Ans: I
like _____________ most to play
SET II
1.
Name five Wild Animals
2.
Name five Domestic Animals.
3.
Name five Birds.
4.
Name five flowers.
5.
Name five vegetables.
6.
Name five transport
7.
Sometimes the school prefers to show the pictures
of Wild animals or Domestic animals or Birds or Flowers or Vegetables and ask
the child to identify them.
8.
How many eyes do you have?
9.
How many ears do you have?
10. How many
noses do you have?
11. How many
fingers do you have?
12. How many
toes do you have?
13. How many
hands do you have?
14. How many
legs do you have?
15. What do
you do with your head?
16. What do
you do with your eyes?
17. What do
you do with your tongue?
18. What do
you do with your ears?
19. What do
you do with your nose?
20. What do
you do with your hands?
21. What do
you do with your legs?
22. Can you
count your fingers?
23. Count your
fingers.
In general child should know the body parts.
Schools can show them a picture of body part and ask questions
For example: They may point to shoulder in the
picture and ask what this is and the child has to reply this is shoulder.
SET III -
Actions
Child is asked to identify the actions like
pointing to an action; they may ask what the boy/girl is doing.
As a reference I am giving a picture with few
actions. There can be any other actions like brushing, combing, bathing,
exercising etc.
SET IV - WritingSkill -- 4+ age group
At the age of 4, your child should know writing A
to Z
1. Write from A to Z in capital letters
2. Write you name.
3. They may be asked to write missing letters like
A __ C __
E __ G __ I ___ etc
SET V - Numerical
Skill -- 4+ age group
By the age of 4 year, your child should be able to
count from 1 to 100 and writing at least from 1 to 60
1.
Random your child will be asked to count from 1 to
10 or maybe from 60 to 70 or from 41 to 60 etc
2.
Back count from 20 to 0 or 15 to 0 or 10 to 0
3.
Fill in the Missing numbers
For
example: _ 2 _ 4 _ _ 7 _ _ 10
4.
Write the after numbers
For
Example: 5 _, 7 _, 10 _ etc
5.
Alternatively, they may ask what comes after 5,
what comes 7, what comes 10 etc
6.
Similarly, they may also ask about before numbers
like what comes before 5, what comes before 7 etc
7.
Count from 10. (In this case your child should
start counting from 10 and should continue till s/he is asked to stop)
Once the child is done with all the above sets,
s/he is ready to move to the next level. Questions below are not very commonly
asked.
SET VI - Picture
Reading -- This is for 4+ age group
Now a day, many schools ask the child for picture
reading.
They may
show the picture of a birthday party or Hospital/Doctor’s clinic or Zoo etc and
from that picture they will ask different questions.
For example: I am show a picture of a birthday
party
Related questions to this picture:
1. What is this picture about?
2. What is boy doing? (answer: blowing candles)
3. Pointing to the cake, what is this?
4. How many girls/boys are there?
5. How many candles/balloons are there?
6. What are the colors of balloons?
Do similar exercise with pictures like Zoo, Park,
Classroom, Hospital etc.
SET VII
1. What is
your favorite indoor game?
2. What is your
favorite outdoor game?
3. What is
our national animal?
4. What is
our national bird?
5. What is
our national anthem?
6. What is
name of our country?
7. How many
colors are there in our National Flag? What are they?
8. How many
colors are there is a traffic signal? What are they?
9. Have you
seen rainbow?
10. How many
colors are there in the rainbow? What are they?
11. Have you
seen butterfly?
12. Butterfly
is a bird or insect?
13. Can
butterfly fly?
14. Are you a
smart or bad boy?
Etiquettes
Another important thing
that is observed during admission is Etiquettes.
A child should at least
learn to say Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening and Thank You.
When your child enter the
room for interaction with teachers, he or she should say Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening
(as applicable).
If he or she is asked to
sit then they should say Thank You.
Most of the school gives
chocolate to the candidates. Your child should learn to say Thank You after
taking the chocolate.
Sometimes they will be
asked to pick up from a cluster of chocolates or toffees. Teach your child to
pick up only once chocolate or toffee from the lot and then say Thank You.
Shapes
Your child should have idea of some basic shapes.
He or she should able to relate a shape to an object.
They
may ask the child to identify a given shape. They may also ask questions like
what is shape of a ball, egg etc.
